a question
 

do you ever feel like you should have been born in a different time period?

i feel as though i should've been born 20 or 25 years earlier.

yeah... i think i would have been kick-ass in the 13th century...

I was born in the first half of the 20th century.

yeah, either the '00s so i could properly enjoy the '20s. alternatively.. i'd like to be a twenty something now so i could be a hipster that was able to ironically appreciate the '90s the first time around.

or dude, the 1500s. i'm pale and round. i'd be a goddess.

you would've been the court jester


or the village idiot

;)

I would've loved to have been able to experience 1977 as a spotty 15-year old spod - alas, I was a non-spotty 5 year old spod instead. Growing up in the late-70's/early 80's in Berlin would've been great fun too, I reckon.

but i likely would have owned an ass, that i could kick every day to take out my frustrations on. also, fair maidens publicly bathing ftw.

Ten years earlier, maybe. Although, then I'd have to remember the 80's. But I like the time I was born.

Definitely not later, though...Sucks for the young'ns.

Here's davenotdead negotiating with the local Baron to get access to the WenchWorld theme park, just up the road from Camelot:

to experience great music, 20 years earlier would've been fine

on the otherhand, everything points to the 70's/80's in Ireland being a nightmare

so umm

plus i wouldnt actually like to be 20 years older

mostly the reason why i would like to have been born 20-25 yrs earlier is so i could've experienced sonic youth and everything like that properly when it happened

or 30-35 years earlier and then i coulda been a groupie in the glam rock days with all those girls on the strip

i have people skills

Being a groupie to D Bowie would've have been great (hell, I would've done it), but the thing is that most glam rock band members looked like your average mongy builder from up the road (you know, the one your Mum doesn't trust cos he keeps giving her "funny" looks). Now if you were in the right circles (Bowie/Reed/NY Dolls)....now you're talking.

those girls all fucked david bowie. lori maddox lost her virginity to him. that would be quite an experience, to say the least.

but david bowie was beautiful back then. shit, he's a hot old man, i'd do him now but i'm afraid iman would kick my ass.

I think I would have liked to have been born in 1989, not to experience anything in particular. I just want to be two years older.

Cantankster - Bowie wouldn't kick your ass, but his wifey might.

Have you read "Please Kill Me", where Ron Asheton talks about "worrying" about shagging 14 year-old groupies in LA? What a hero. I don't care how many times Bowie's had his teeth done, I still would (Cantanky says "No, ME first!").

im pretty ok with my age... the important thing is that high school girls stay the same age.

Every decade sucked for the most part.

I wouldn't have minded being born in a cross-fire hurricane. Whatever the fuck that is. Apparently it involves howling at your ma in the driving rain. It all sounds terribly exciting. Far more so than being born in a ward in Plaistow Maternity Hospital.

yeah, like i said, i'm afraid that Iman would cut me up.

i liked bowie's fangs, shame he had them fixed

those girls, sable star and lori and them, shagged all the rock stars though, not just the glam boys. mick jagger and jimmy page and robert plant and all them.

Jimmy Page would've been the one - anyone using Alesteir Crowley sex magick must've had it going on. Jagger would've just looked at himself in the mirror whilst bonking his latest conquest....d'you know who was the biggest shagger in the Stones, though? Bill fucking Wyman!!

EDIT - you could show Bowie your teethies.

bill wyman was a whore, he's fucked like 1000 women!

Yeah, I know, and he was the UGLIEST Stone!

"Classics Stones" lookers index:

M Jagger - Meh (although v cool in his "Performance" era, I'll give him that)
K Richards - total cool
B Jones - Cool x 1000
C Watts - the quiet one, but had his own cool thing going on
B Wyman - a fucking plumber.

Wyman looked pretty ace in the beginning.


Keef looked about five in the early days:

^^^Yeah, Wyman does look good there, tis true.

don't forget ian stewart

they hid him in a closet because he looked just like a normal fatman

Ian Stewart was cool because he didn't give a shit about being one of the "lookers" in the Stones - he played on plenty of their stuff too, back in the day (didn't he play the piano riff on "Sympathy..."?)

damn

it's 1969 ok!


seriously though, fuck different epochs, I'm from another dimension.

oh hell yes

No need to be modest, sir - I bet it was you who passed Iggy Pop that big tub of peanut butter at the 1970 Cincinatti Pop Festival, eh? :cool:;)

I love my era to be honest. Well, not that I LOVE it but... I mean, I'm well into it, I wouldn't like being somewhere else in thep ast

Yeah, live at a time when tri-corner hats were fashionable.

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i would like to have been born in the distant future. but in the past new york from 1965 to 1990 would have been a great to witness first hand as far as music goes.

stop bothering / boring us withthe Stones for Fuck's Sake.
Here is a little gift to you Stones addicts from ME.

now to answer the excellent question here
i feel good in the period of time i was born.

I was too small in the 70's (to know the Stones)
I was thrashing to MC Hammer in the 80's (ignoring the Cure and Evol as I was kind of mmm 10)
I was listening to pavement and Sebadoh and SY and smoking shitloads of pot in the 90's (mmm good , yet troubled times)
I feel very comfortable in 00's

watching the world as it obviously collapses around me.

I have always been way ahead of my time. I feel like should have been born in 2025.

Alternately, I think I would have enjoyed living as a teenager or college-aged kid in the 1950s, as along as I was among either a) the wealthy or b) the beat poets.

At the same time, I enjoyed the hell out of myself growing up in the 60s and 70s. In hindsight, I wish I'd started paying attention to stuff earlier back then--I was a late comer to the Stones and the Beatles, not really getting into them until 1968 or so when I was around 13.

i haven't fucked much with the past but ive fucked plenty with the future.

seriously.

the middle ages, the renaissance, the classical era, prehistory, the jazz era, the various pre-post-and world wars, the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, can eat shit.

I have always said it, man: There is no time like the present. And you can quote me on that, man.

The present sucks, too. But at least I'm not going to know what happens next.